brummie

At our school, we had an annual chess competition called the Pugh Cup. True. at our school the chess pieces were placed in the orifices of those who played the game

At our school, we had an annual chess competition called the Pugh Cup. True.

Motson really is a twat. He seems to have descended into the early onset of Alzheimers of late, they need to ditch him and get a proper commentator, not someone who just trots out tired cliches from his long but dull repertoire. I'm not a fan.

Did Schmeichel just question how bothered the players are about the Cup these days? Missed the start of what he was saying, and Lineker looked panicky.

I've just vomitted up a kidney at the very thought.

Or Solskjaer. We need to bring Kiraly on to wrap this game up.

Serious question though, 1878, leaving aside the fact that you had the chances and didn't take them, how bothered are you about being out of the Cup?

Young Wesley is very orange, is he not?

They actually have some kind of system to come up with these songs. There's actually a guy who writes most of them - name escapes me - and there is a level of organisation (songsheets etc). Sounds naff, but it obviously works. EDIT Pete Boyle, I think aye i remember reading something about that. It definately works, one of the few clubs where pretty much every player has a song, and the song is generally to a different tune n all. Their away support is excellent (if full of arrogant, obnoxious cunts), but their home support is utterly, utterly dreadful, even taking into account that at almost every match in every PL ground, the away fans make much more noise than the home fans.

They actually have some kind of system to come up with these songs. There's actually a guy who writes most of them - name escapes me - and there is a level of organisation (songsheets etc). Sounds naff, but it obviously works. EDIT Pete Boyle, I think

Agbonlahor will chase absolutely everything down, no matter how seemingly pointless.

Doing well, Petrov.

I bet Doug has already been in there with him, ingratiating himself with him, and within the next week or so he'll be in the press referring to "my close friend, Fabio"

That's them, not us

On the piss my lord, on the piss etc etc et Its your round, my lord, its your round etc etc etc Oh lord on the piss

A few more than I suspected, but the pricing decision says a lot about football today

Absolutely no chance whatsoever, to be honest.

Same as every year then. Sweepstake on 'we've got a proper cup tie now'? I'll say 55mins. I think I might just turn it off and go for a bath and a sleep or something. I can barely stand to watch those fucking cunts in our ground.

I know they've got to big it up as it is a rare chance for them to show top level football, but the BBC's hyping of the glory of the cup is sick-inducing and woefully out of touch.

Or in our case, Man United in the third round, 4 times in 7 years (5 in 9 or whatever it is). Shitty, shitty luck.

Jesus, Sunderland really are shit, aren't they?

I didn't see Football Focus today. Did they show that clip?

I think we're going to see some poor attendances today. I think our match will be around 37,000 and no more. On terrestrial telly, just after christmas, sandwiched between two home matches in 10 days, top price tickets to watch us play Man U in the 3rd round for the 4th time in 7 seasons (which is remarkable) and with our awful awful record against them. Poor attendance on the way. I'm sitting it out. I know we're supposed to love the Cup but my main concern is getting no injuries to halt our league process. Oh, and I think I'd almost rather just lose today than get a replay. I bet we go and win now.

Absolutely correct. He was the last decent one the BBC had.

And because these days, relegation is a far more catastrophic event (mainly but not only financially) than it ever was in the past He's right, they won't win the cup. You're right, they won't win the PL. But staying in the PL for clubs like Reading is the be all and end all of football.